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On Saturday 23 April 2011 17:35:44 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> Hi, Alan. |
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> |
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> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:43:45AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:05 on Friday 22 April 2011, Alan |
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> > Mackenzie |
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> > |
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> > did opine thusly: |
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> > > Hi, Gentoo. |
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> > > |
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> > > In my attempt to 'emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta', one sole |
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> > > package is refusing to build, namely pygtk. |
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> > > |
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> > > Its log file displays many (perhaps 100) error lines like: |
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> > > Could not write method AtkObject.get_attributes: No ArgType for |
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> > > |
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> > > AtkAttributeSet* |
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> > > |
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> > > . The command that caused all these errors was: |
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> > > |
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> > > libtool: compile: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. |
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> > > -I/usr/include/python2.6 -I/usr/include/python2.6 -pthread |
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> > > -I/usr/include/pygtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 |
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> > > -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 |
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> > > -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I./gtk |
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> > > -I/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include -pthread |
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> > > -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 |
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> > > -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -O2 -pipe -march=athlon64 -Wall |
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> > > -fno-strict-aliasing -std=c9x -MT pango_la-pangomodule.lo -MD -MP -MF |
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> > > .deps/pango_la-pangomodule.Tpo -c pangomodule.c -fPIC -DPIC -o |
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> > > .libs/pango_la-pangomodule.o |
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> > > |
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> > > . If anybody knows how to fix this, or a more appropriate place to |
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> > > ask for help, please tell me. |
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> > > |
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> > > Thanks in advance! |
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> > |
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> > This one might be tricky. Here's a tip: include version numbers of |
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> > packages that are giving trouble, and whether you run stable, testing |
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> > or (god forbid!) a mixture - this can be rather important in guiding |
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> > one to what to do next (a process mostly defined by instinct rather |
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> > than by say reason) |
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> |
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> OK. As a relative newbie, I only run "stable". My system is giving me |
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> enough headaches as it is. |
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> |
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> > The error looks like an API break between pygtk and whatever provides |
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> > AtkObject. That is part of the gtk accessibility toolkit, and the |
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> > relevant files come out of a package called atk. |
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> > |
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> > My first guess is that pygtk and atk are now out of sync on your machine. |
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> > Try this: |
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> > |
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> > emerge -av1 atk |
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> > emerge -av1 pygtk |
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> > |
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> > Post back if that doesn't work. |
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> |
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> Sadly, it didn't work. |
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> |
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> > Another tip: search bugs.gentoo.org first before posting - oftentimes |
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> > the problem is already known and reported on. In this specific case |
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> > however, I didn't find anything. |
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> OK. I managed to get the problem fixed, basically by trying everything, |
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> though I don't really understand what I did. This was my recipe: |
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> emerge --sync |
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> emerge --update --deep --newuse xfce4-meta |
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> |
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> , which updated libglade-2.6.4 and pygtk-2.22.0-r1 successfully. So |
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> thanks! |
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What do you get when you run: |
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# eselect python list |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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